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Interview: KulturSPIEGEL 12/2012 [German]

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Himmel ist ein tolles Wort

 

Von Dallach, Christoph

Der Pop-Superstar Lana Del Rey, 26, über Missgunst, die Leidenschaft der Sozialarbeiter und das Glück, das im Weihnachtslied liegt "Ich muss nur irgendwo ,Shut up' schreiben, und Millionen Menschen finden das großartig. Das ist mir unheimlich."

 

Lana Del Rey: Ich würde Sie gern vorab etwas fragen: Gefällt Ihnen eigentlich meine Musik?

KulturSPIEGEL: Ja. Warum fragen Sie?

Oh danke, danke, das ist überraschend. Die meisten Journalisten hassen meine Songs. Glauben Sie mir, ich spreche aus Erfahrung, denn ich bin in diesem Jahr für meine Arbeit ausgiebig beschimpft worden.

Ihr Album "Born to Die" wurde trotzdem einer der Bestseller des Jahres. Haben Sie eine Idee, warum Sie so polarisieren?

Mir ist das ein Rätsel. Vielleicht ist es so, dass alle Jubeljahre mal jemand im Pop auftaucht, mit dem viele nichts anfangen können, und das war zuletzt wohl ich. Das funktioniert dann wie "Stille Post": Irgendein Schreiber verbreitet als Erster eine kleine, merkwürdige, böse Geschichte über dich, die dann weitergetragen wird und beständig an Irrsinn und Bosheit zunimmt, bis sie irgendwann mit dir nichts mehr zu tun hat.

Sie wurden heftig als hübsche Marionette gewitzter Musikmanager kritisiert. Wäre das auch einem Mann passiert?

Auf die vermeintliche Frauenfeindlichkeit der Musikindustrie wurde ich oft angesprochen, aber darum geht es in meinem Fall nicht. Ich glaube, dass das etwas Persönliches ist. Meine Songs, die ich tatsächlich selbst schreibe, sind sehr intim, und weil vielen Menschen solche Gefühle dubios vorkommen, schließen sie daraus, dass ich eine Marionette sein muss. Aber das illustriert in Wahrheit nur ihre Hilflosigkeit.

Ist die Melancholie Ihrer Musik kunstvolle Pose oder ein Fall für den Therapeuten?

Weder noch. In mir war schon immer eine Melancholie, nennen wir es Sehnsucht. Ich war vier oder fünf, als ich auf den Eingangsstufen vor dem Haus meiner Eltern saß und mich nach einem Ort sehnte, der irgendwo anders war. Fragen Sie meine Mutter, falls Sie mir nicht glauben. Dieses Gefühl begleitet mich ein Leben lang. Aber ich leide nicht. Ich würde eher sagen, dass ich ganz gut gelernt habe, mich mit meiner Traurigkeit zu arrangieren. Aber es gab auch Zeiten, in denen es mir sehr schlechtging. Diese finsteren Jahre habe ich zum Glück überwunden. Die Erinnerung an sie inspiriert mich heute zu meinen Songs.

Sie sprachen in einem Interview mal vom Tod als "dunklem Paradies". Meinen Sie das wirklich ernst?

Ja, Tod und Paradies sind für mich miteinander verknüpft. Ich erwarte nach meinem Tod etwas, das sehr ruhig und entspannt ist. Das kann man schon als Paradies bezeichnen. Ich liebe einfach den Begriff "Paradies". Er ist so aufgeladen mit Bedeutung. Ich habe ihn sogar auf meine Hand tätowiert. "Himmel" ist auch so ein tolles Wort, oder "exotisch".

Aber muss man sich ein Wort gleich auf die Hand tätowieren, weil es schön klingt?

Na sicher! Ich liebe ausdrucksstarke Wörter. Auf meinen Arm habe ich die Namen meiner Lieblingsschriftsteller Whitman und Nabokov tätowieren lassen. Immer, wenn ich darauf schaue, werde ich daran erinnert, dass das Leben großartig sein kann.

Was unterscheidet Elisabeth Woolridge Grant, wie Sie mit bürgerlichem Namen heißen, von Lana Del Rey, Ihrer Künstler-Identität?

Nichts. Wir sind eins. Ich fand einfach, dass dieser Name besser zu meiner Musik passt. Er ist exotisch und geheimnisvoll. Aber wenn ich mit Freunden Zeit verbringe, führe ich mich nicht anders auf als in dieser Hotel-Suite, wo ich als Lana Del Rey mit Ihnen plaudere. Ich spiele kein Theater, der Name Lana Del Rey entspricht nur eher meinem Selbstverständnis als Künstlerin. Dass das ein Marketing-Coup schlauer Plattenfirmen-Menschen sei, wie manche behaupten, ist auch wieder so ein Blödsinn.

Fühlen Sie sich unterschätzt?

Wieso sollte ich? Bloß weil einige amerikanische Journalisten mich nicht ausstehen können? Mein Album ist ein Multi-Millionen-Bestseller. Ich habe sogar diverse Preise gewonnen. Nur in meinem Heimatland, den USA, die Inspiration all meiner Songs sind, weiß man leider nicht mit mir umzugehen. Deshalb bin ich dort auch weggezogen und lebe jetzt in London.

Was hätten Sie gemacht, wenn Sie als Lana Del Rey keinen Erfolg gehabt hätten? Gab es einen Plan B?

Musik war mein Plan B. Ein Hobby. Ich habe in New York viele Jahre lang als Sozialarbeiterin gearbeitet. Ich war seit meinem 18. Lebensjahr in Obdachlosenheimen beschäftigt und in Rehabilitationszentren für Alkoholiker und Drogensüchtige. Musik war lange der Luxus danach. Ich bin super darin, bedürftigen Menschen ihre Sozialversicherungsnummern und -ausweise wiederzubeschaffen. Das ist meine wahre Leidenschaft.

Kaum zu glauben.

Fragen Sie doch meine Eltern und meine Geschwister. Die werden alles bestätigen. Als ich nach New York kam, lernte ich gleich zu Beginn ein paar Menschen kennen, die sozial engagiert waren. Ich kam ja nach New York, um coole Musiker und Schriftsteller kennenzulernen. Die von mir erträumten Poeten, die in atemlosen Nächten einen sensationellen Roman in die Schreibmaschine hämmern, habe ich nie gefunden. Ich habe überhaupt nie einen Schriftsteller in New York kennengelernt. Die einzigen leidenschaftlichen Menschen, die ich in New York traf, waren Sozialarbeiter. Und da blieb ich hängen, arbeitete tagsüber und machte nachts allein Musik mit meiner Gitarre.

Und wie kamen Sie dann an Ihren Plattenvertrag?

Indem ich mich an einem Songwriter-Amateur-Wettbewerb beteiligte. Ich gewann nicht. Aber einer der Juroren hatte ein kleines Label und bot mir einen Vertrag an und einen Produzenten. Dann legte ich mir den Künstlernamen Lizzy Grant zu und nahm sieben Monate lang abends ein Album auf, das dann für zwei Jahre auf Halde gelegt wurde in der Hoffnung, dass eine große Firma die Platte übernehmen würde. Aber daraus wurde nichts. Die Songs waren sehr finster, nicht geeignet für ein großes Publikum. Außerdem war das Hin und Her der Musikmanager nervtötend: Leute, die dir erst sagen, dass du genial bist, finden eine Woche später, dass dir doch etwas fehlt. Ich hatte mich bereits damit abgefunden, keine Musik zu machen. Zumindest nur noch für mich. Ich produzierte dann mit Freunden Video-Clips, die ich eben selbst online stellte. So wie "Video Games", der mir dann doch noch einen Plattenvertrag einbrachte.

Stimmt es, dass Sie ohne Fernseher aufwuchsen?

Es stand zwar ein Fernseher im Wohnzimmer meines Elternhauses, der war aber nicht ans Kabelnetz angeschlossen, sondern diente nur als Monitor für Videofilme. In den Zimmern meines Vaters und meiner Mutter standen regulär verbundene Fernseher, auf denen ich als Kind Trickfilme schauen durfte. Aber nur selten. Meine Eltern fanden, dass mich Fernsehen überfordere, dass mich das zu sehr beeindrucke. Wahrscheinlich hatten sie recht. Wenn ich als Kind etwas Interessantes im Fernsehen sah, plapperte ich es tagelang wie ein Papagei nach, was meine Eltern so erschreckte, dass sie den Familien-Fernseher vom Netz nahmen, als ich 7 war. Erst mit 14 durfte ich wieder regulär fernsehen. Ich saß damals rund um die Uhr vor MTV und inhalierte alles, was da flimmerte.

Der Clip zu Ihrem Song "Video Games" wurde inzwischen bei YouTube fast 50 Millionen Mal angeklickt. Wo wären Sie ohne das Internet?

Keine Ahnung, das habe ich mich auch schon gefragt. Das Internet ist etwas Abstraktes, das ich vermutlich noch immer nicht richtig begriffen habe. Wer sind all die Menschen, die dort meine Clips sehen? Ich kenne weder sie noch ihre Gesichter, was meinen Erfolg durchaus surreal erscheinen lässt.

Lesen Sie die Kommentare bei YouTube?

Manchmal. Man muss da vorsichtig sein, sonst dreht man durch. Manchmal reagiere ich auf etwas. Verfasse einen Kommentar, ganz normal, unter meinem richtigen Namen. Das sorgt dann zuverlässig für mächtig Trubel im weltweiten Netz. Ich muss nur irgendwo "Shut up" schreiben, und mehr als eine Million Menschen finden das großartig. Das ist mir unheimlich.

Im Internet wird besonders böse über Sie hergezogen. Sind Sie inzwischen abgehärtet?

Nein, und ich werde auch niemals so gepanzert sein. Ich weiß natürlich, dass man solche Gemeinheiten nie persönlich nehmen darf. Nur manchmal braucht es etwas Zeit, um sich dieser Tatsache wieder bewusst zu werden.

Erliegen Sie trotzdem der Versuchung, Ihren Namen zu googeln?

Früher, bevor ich bekannt war, tat ich das oft. Jetzt nur noch selten. Vor gut einem Jahr hat ja auch noch kein Mensch über mich geschrieben, da war das Googeln entspannt. Heute macht es mir eher Angst. Das Netz ist voll mit sehr aggressiven Menschen. Ich will gar nicht wissen, wie in diesen Tagen meine neue Platte "Paradise" im Netz verrissen wird. Aber in ein paar Wochen wird mich dann vermutlich doch die Neugier überkommen.

Nutzen Sie soziale Netzwerke?

Was Twitter und Facebook angeht, habe ich mich privat lange zurückgezogen. Ich nutze die Netzwerke nur als Werbe-Tool. Wenn eine neue Platte kommt, lade ich einige Bilder hoch. Mehr nicht. Mich persönlich interessieren andere Aspekte des Internets mehr, zum Beispiel plane ich gerade, eine kleine Stiftung zu gründen. Für so eine Arbeit ist das Internet toll. Wir möchten Denker mit bis zu 200000 Dollar fördern - Leute, die sich um die Nachhaltigkeit auf diesem Planeten verdient machen oder die Nutzbarkeit sozialer Netzwerke verbessern.

Woher kommt Ihr soziales Engagement?

Meine Eltern haben mich in dem Bewusstsein erzogen, dass man sich in die Gemeinschaft einbringen und mit anderen teilen muss. Ich fliege morgen nach New York und werde dort an Thanksgiving bei "Essen auf Rädern" aushelfen. Das brauche ich auch für mein inneres Gleichgewicht, denn in den vergangenen zehn Monaten fühlte es sich oft so an, als wenn das nicht mein Leben wäre. Mit den Menschen, die bis dahin mein Leben ausmachten, rede ich kaum noch.

Verteilen Sie auch an Heiligabend Essen an Bedürftige?

Nein, da werden meine Geschwister und ich bei meinen Großeltern in Lake Placid sein. Ich habe meiner Mutter vor einiger Zeit versprochen, dass wir uns zu Weihnachten immer sehen werden. Das ist ja auch eine bedeutsame Zeit, in den Tagen zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr zieht jeder Bilanz, wo er im Leben so steht und wie es weitergehen soll.

Gehen Sie dann auch in die Kirche?

Selbstverständlich, ich bin Katholikin. Ich singe gern in der Kirche, denn ich liebe religiöse Lieder, Weihnachtslieder. "Stille Nacht" ist ganz besonders toll.

Haben Sie als Kind auch an den Weihnachtsmann geglaubt?

Oh ja! Ich war fest von seiner Existenz überzeugt. Meine Mutter schrieb immer kleine Botschaften an uns, die angeblich vom Weihnachtsmann waren. So wie "Danke für die Kekse. Ich hoffe, dir gefallen meine Geschenke. Viele Grüße, W."

Fühlten Sie sich betrogen, als Sie die Wahrheit erfuhren?

Ich war zwölf Jahre alt und schockiert und forderte meinen Vater auf, mir die Wahrheit zu sagen: "Dad, gibt es den Weihnachtsmann?" Er schüttelte betreten den Kopf, und ich war fassungslos - "Was?" Ich wollte dann wissen, wozu der ganze Zirkus mit den Märchen gut sein soll. Aber heute ist mir natürlich klar, wie wichtig eine gute Show ist.

Ist es anstrengend, die Hauptperson der Lana-Del-Rey-Show zu sein?

Das kommt darauf an wo. In Frankreich sorge ich für Menschenaufläufe, in den USA erkennt mich nur selten jemand. Ich liebe es, in Coffeeshops zu sitzen und Zeitung zu lesen. Das ist in New York auch immer noch kein Problem. Na gut, manchmal kommt jemand und sagt: "Entschuldigung, Sie sehen ja aus wie Lana Del Rey." Und ich antworte dann: "Vielen Dank, das ist sehr nett von Ihnen." Und freue mich.

 

Lana Del Rey: "Born to Die", gerade erschienen ist die "Paradise Edition" mit acht neuen Songs (Universal). Tournee ab 6. April 2013.

INTERVIEW: CHRISTOPH DALLACH

 

source: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/kulturspiegel/d-89726953.html


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Interesting article! Confirms she still considers herself Catholic, volunteered for Meals on wheels on thanksgiving, and will be w/ her fam on christmas in Lake placid.. the thing that bothers me about Lana is just how much she mentions her charitable work and how it's her "passion".. it almost seems like a marketing tool to make people not be so vicious....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lana Del Rey: I would like to ask you something in advance: Do you actually like my music? Yes: cultural mirror. Why you ask? Oh thanks, thanks, that's surprising.Most journalists hate my songs. Believe me, I speak from experience, because this year I have been extensively abused for my work.


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Interesting article! Confirms she still considers herself Catholic, volunteered for Meals on wheels on thanksgiving, and will be w/ her fam on christmas in Lake placid.. the thing that bothers me about Lana is just how much she mentions her charitable work and how it's her "passion".. it almost seems like a marketing tool to make people not be so vicious....

 

I don't mind that she mentions her social work. She has talked about it before in her earlier interviews. A person really does need to have a passion to work with marginalized populations like the homeless and the addicts. They're not easy to work with due to the problems they have. It's not a glamorous job. People wonder what she did before her debut since she seemed to have appeared out of nowhere from the sea of the Internet last year. If that was her day job, I don't see why she wouldn't mention it. It could be a marketing tool, but I would like to think that the response was for those interested in her past and not her haters.

 

I hope that her fans who look up to her will take some notes from her and give back to their community


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Interesting article! Confirms she still considers herself Catholic, volunteered for Meals on wheels on thanksgiving, and will be w/ her fam on christmas in Lake placid.. the thing that bothers me about Lana is just how much she mentions her charitable work and how it's her "passion".. it almost seems like a marketing tool to make people not be so vicious....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lana Del Rey: I would like to ask you something in advance: Do you actually like my music? Yes: cultural mirror. Why you ask? Oh thanks, thanks, that's surprising.Most journalists hate my songs. Believe me, I speak from experience, because this year I have been extensively abused for my work.

 

Well, I don't know, I think it's quite admirable when rich people do social/charity work, not many bother or put effort in it. I always like to think I'd do that too if I could afford it - it's quite hard to be dedicated in helping others when you can't support yourself. And I kinda believe Lana is a good natured person.

 

That last part makes me a bit sad. :pft:



 


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I know. And whether someone does it for accolades or just out of the kindness of their heart, either way they are giving back so it doesn't matter but it was just a thought. I do think she did it out of court mandated the kindness of her heart :P (although one cannot deny that it is not necessarily a 'selfless' act- volunteering, that is- you can gain self-worth, purpose, and sometimes a negative 'holier than thou' attitude, etc.)


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Why don't you guys just use microsoft word? it has a transator on there.

 

:wtf: those never come out accurate and even if you make it english it will still sound gibberish


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Interesting article! Confirms she still considers herself Catholic, volunteered for Meals on wheels on thanksgiving, and will be w/ her fam on christmas in Lake placid.. the thing that bothers me about Lana is just how much she mentions her charitable work and how it's her "passion".. it almost seems like a marketing tool to make people not be so vicious....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lana Del Rey: I would like to ask you something in advance: Do you actually like my music? Yes: cultural mirror. Why you ask? Oh thanks, thanks, that's surprising.Most journalists hate my songs. Believe me, I speak from experience, because this year I have been extensively abused for my work.

You touched a very interesting point that always cross my mind. She mentions her "charity" work every given opportunity. She never mentions the institute name or how someone can help she just says she does that a lot. I find interesting that because I feel sometimes that is a marketing tool and bugs me. Sometimes I think she doesn't really think before saying things and just says watever is on her mind. I don't even like the word charity I think is an arrogant word. I think this way: do whatever you can for who you can when you can. What I understand from what she says this charity in brooklin she mentions all the time was the one that "clear"her up. So maybe she doesn't mention the name so people don't start digging her past.


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Did she really say she lives in london now or is my google translate just shitty?

 

That's what I got too. "Only in my own country, the United States, the inspiration of all my songs, you know, unfortunately, does not want to deal with me.That's why I'm [no longer?] there and moved away and now live in London."


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I found one translated interview. The person says she/he used google translator so probably is not really a good translation. The link to the site is: http://fotpforums.com/showthread.php?48299-New-Interview-KulturSPIEGEL

 

Ps: how do I create a spoiler??

 

The interview:

Heaven is a great word

 

The pop superstar Lana Del Rey, 26, about jealousy, the passion of the social workers and the happiness that is in the Christmas carol "I just need somewhere Shut up writing ', and millions of people find it great. This gives me the creeps."

 

Lana Del Rey: I would like to ask you something in advance: Do you like my music really?

Cultural mirrors: Yes. Why you ask?

Oh, thank you, thank you, that's surprising. Most journalists hate my songs. Believe me, I speak from experience because I have been this year abused extensively for my work.

 

Her album "Born to Die" was still one of the bestsellers of the year. Do you have any idea why you polarize it?

Me is a mystery. Perhaps it is so that a blue moon someone shows up in pop, with many can not do anything, and that was probably last me. This works like "Whispers": Some writers spread first a small, strange, angry story about yourself, which is then carried on and resistant to vice and wickedness increases until it has sometime to do with you any more.

 

They have been heavily criticized as a pretty shrewd puppet music manager. Were this to happen to a man?

On the supposed misogyny in the music industry, I was often asked, but that is not in my case. I believe that this is something personal. My songs that I write are actually themselves, very intimate, and because many people seem dubious such feelings, they conclude that I must be a puppet. But it illustrates the truth only their helplessness.

 

Is the melancholy music of your artful pose or a case for the therapist?

Neither. In me has always been a melancholy, call it nostalgia. I was four or five when I was on the front steps of the house before my parents sat me and longed for a place that was somewhere else. Ask my mother, if you do not believe me. This feeling with me for a lifetime. But I do not suffer. I would rather say that I learned quite well, I get along with my sadness. But there were also times when it came to me very badly. These dark years I have overcome to happiness. The memory of it inspired me today to my songs.

 

They spoke in an interview time of death as "a dark paradise." Do you really serious?

Yes, death and paradise for me are linked. I expect after my death, something that is very calm and relaxed. This can already be described as paradise. I prefer the term "paradise". He is so charged with meaning. , I even tattooed on my hand. "Heaven" is such a great word, or "exotic".

 

But one has a word tattooed on the same hand, because it sounds nice?

Well sure! I love expressive words. On my arm I have tattooed the names of my favorite writers Whitman and Nabokov. Whenever I look at it, I am reminded that life can be great.

 

What distinguishes Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, what's your name real name, by Lana Del Rey, your artist identity?

Nothing. We are one. I found just that this name fits better with my music. It is exotic and mysterious. But when I spend time with friends, I do not lead me on, unlike in the hotel suite, where I chat with you as Lana Del Rey. I do not play theater, the name Lana Del Rey matches just rather my self as an artist. That it was a marketing coup clever record company people, some say, is another one of those bullshit.

 

Do you underestimate yourself?

Why should I? Just because some American journalists can not stand me? My album is a multi-million-seller. I've even won several awards. Only in my own country, the United States, the inspiration of all my songs, you know, unfortunately, not to deal with me. That's why I'm there and moved away and now live in London.

 

What would you have done if you had had no success as Lana Del Rey? Was there a plan B?

Music was my plan as a hobby. I've worked in New York for many years as a social worker. Since I was 18 my Years working in homeless shelters and. Rehabilitation centers for alcoholics and drug addicts Music has long been the luxury then. I'm super in it, people in need their Social Security numbers and ID cards recover. That is my true passion.

 

Hard to believe.

Just ask my parents and my siblings. That will confirm everything. When I came to New York, I met a couple at the beginning to know people who were socially. Yes I came to New York to learn about cool musicians and writers. The poets dreamed of me, in the breathless night banging a sensational novel in the typewriter, I've never found. I have never ever met a writer in New York. The only passionate people I met in New York, were social workers. And since I got stuck, worked during the day and at night alone made music with my guitar.

 

And how you arrived at your record deal?

Since I joined a songwriter-amateur competition. I did not win. But one of the jurors had a small label, and offered me a contract and a producer. Then I got myself to the stage name Lizzy Grant and took seven months in the evening on an album, which was then placed for two years to stockpile in the hope that a large company would take over the board. But nothing came. The songs were very dark, not suitable for a large audience. In addition, the to and fro of the music manager was annoying: people who tell you only that you're awesome find, a week later that you still something missing. I had already resigned themselves to make music. At least just for me. I produced it with friends video clips that I just presented itself online. Just as "Video Games", who then brought me still a record deal.

 

Is it true that you grew up without a TV?

Although there was a TV in the living room of my parents' house, but it was not connected to the cable network, but only served as a monitor for video movies. In the rooms of my father and mother were regularly connected televisions, where as a child I was allowed to watch cartoons. But rarely. My parents felt that urge me on television that impress me too much. They were probably right. When I was a kid saw something interesting on TV, I chattered it for days like a parrot what scared my parents so that they the family television network took from when I was 7. It was only at 14 I was allowed to watch TV regularly. I then sat around the clock before MTV and inhaled everything flickered there.

 

The clip of her song "Video Games" has now been clicked on YouTube nearly 50 million times. Where would you be without the Internet?

No idea, I've wondered about. The Internet is an abstract thing, which I probably still not properly understood. Who are all the people who are there to watch my clips? I know neither they nor their faces that my success can appear quite surreal.

 

Read the comments on YouTube?

Sometimes. One has to be careful, otherwise you by turns. Sometimes I react to something. Add a comment, as usual, under my real name. This then ensures reliable for powerful turmoil in the global network. I just need somewhere to write "shut up", and more than a million people find the great. That gives me the creeps.

 

The Internet is towed particularly nasty about you. You are now inured?

No, and I will also never armored Sun Of course I know that one such vulgarities should never take it personally. But sometimes it takes some time to be aware of this fact again.

 

You still succumb to the temptation to google your name?

Previously, before I knew I did often. Now seldom. About a year ago so no one has even written about me, as the Googling was relaxed. Today, it makes me more afraid. The net is full of very aggressive people. I do not know how in those days, my new album "Paradise" is panned in the net. But in a few weeks then I will probably but the curiosity about coming.

 

Make use of social networks?

As for Twitter and Facebook, I have retired long privately. I use the network only as a promotional tool. When a new record comes, I upload some pictures. No longer. I am personally more interested in other aspects of the Internet, for example, I plan just to set up a small foundation. For such work, the Internet is great. We want to encourage thinkers of up to $ 200,000 - people who are concerned about the sustainability of this planet deserves or improve the usefulness of social networks.

 

Where does your social engagement?

 

My parents raised me in the knowledge that you have to get involved in the community and share with others. Tomorrow I fly to New York and will be there to help out on Thanksgiving with "Meals on Wheels". I need this for my equilibrium, because in the last ten months it often felt on as if this is not my life would be. With the people that made up my life until then, I'm talking about any more.

 

They also distribute food to the needy on Christmas Eve?

No, because my siblings and I will be with my grandparents in Lake Placid. I promised my mother some time ago that we will see Christmas forever. That is also a powerful time in the days between Christmas and New Year draws each balance sheet where they stand in life so and go as it should.

 

Then go to church?

Of course, I am Catholic. I like singing in the church, because I love hymns, carols. "Silent Night" is especially great.

 

Have you believed as a child in Santa Claus?

Oh yes! I was convinced of its existence. My mother always wrote little messages to us, they were apparently from Santa. Just like "Thanks for the cookies. I hope you like my gifts. Greetings, W."

 

Did you feel cheated when you learned the truth?

I was twelve years old and shocked and asked my father to tell me the truth, "Dad, there is a Santa Claus?" He shook his head to enter, and I was stunned - "What?" I then wanted to know what the whole circus with the tales should be good. But today it is also clear to me how important a good show is.

 

It is exhausting to be the main character of Lana Del Rey-show?

That depends where. In France, I care for crowds, in the United States rarely someone recognizes me. I love to sit in coffee shops and read the paper. That's in New York and still no problem. Well, sometimes someone comes along and says, "Excuse me, you look just like Lana Del Rey." And I answer, "Thank you, that's very kind of you." And I am pleased.

 

Lana Del Rey: "Born to Die", was just published the "Paradise Edition" with eight new songs (Universal). Tour from 6 April 2013.

 

INTERVIEW: CHRISTOPH Dallach

 

I found one translated interview. The person says she/he used google translator so probably is not really a good translation. The link to the site is: http://fotpforums.co...w-KulturSPIEGEL

 

Ps: how do I create a spoiler??

 

The interview:

Heaven is a great word

 

The pop superstar Lana Del Rey, 26, about jealousy, the passion of the social workers and the happiness that is in the Christmas carol "I just need somewhere Shut up writing ', and millions of people find it great. This gives me the creeps."

 

Lana Del Rey: I would like to ask you something in advance: Do you like my music really?

Cultural mirrors: Yes. Why you ask?

Oh, thank you, thank you, that's surprising. Most journalists hate my songs. Believe me, I speak from experience because I have been this year abused extensively for my work.

 

Her album "Born to Die" was still one of the bestsellers of the year. Do you have any idea why you polarize it?

Me is a mystery. Perhaps it is so that a blue moon someone shows up in pop, with many can not do anything, and that was probably last me. This works like "Whispers": Some writers spread first a small, strange, angry story about yourself, which is then carried on and resistant to vice and wickedness increases until it has sometime to do with you any more.

 

They have been heavily criticized as a pretty shrewd puppet music manager. Were this to happen to a man?

On the supposed misogyny in the music industry, I was often asked, but that is not in my case. I believe that this is something personal. My songs that I write are actually themselves, very intimate, and because many people seem dubious such feelings, they conclude that I must be a puppet. But it illustrates the truth only their helplessness.

 

Is the melancholy music of your artful pose or a case for the therapist?

Neither. In me has always been a melancholy, call it nostalgia. I was four or five when I was on the front steps of the house before my parents sat me and longed for a place that was somewhere else. Ask my mother, if you do not believe me. This feeling with me for a lifetime. But I do not suffer. I would rather say that I learned quite well, I get along with my sadness. But there were also times when it came to me very badly. These dark years I have overcome to happiness. The memory of it inspired me today to my songs.

 

They spoke in an interview time of death as "a dark paradise." Do you really serious?

Yes, death and paradise for me are linked. I expect after my death, something that is very calm and relaxed. This can already be described as paradise. I prefer the term "paradise". He is so charged with meaning. , I even tattooed on my hand. "Heaven" is such a great word, or "exotic".

 

But one has a word tattooed on the same hand, because it sounds nice?

Well sure! I love expressive words. On my arm I have tattooed the names of my favorite writers Whitman and Nabokov. Whenever I look at it, I am reminded that life can be great.

 

What distinguishes Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, what's your name real name, by Lana Del Rey, your artist identity?

Nothing. We are one. I found just that this name fits better with my music. It is exotic and mysterious. But when I spend time with friends, I do not lead me on, unlike in the hotel suite, where I chat with you as Lana Del Rey. I do not play theater, the name Lana Del Rey matches just rather my self as an artist. That it was a marketing coup clever record company people, some say, is another one of those bullshit.

 

Do you underestimate yourself?

Why should I? Just because some American journalists can not stand me? My album is a multi-million-seller. I've even won several awards. Only in my own country, the United States, the inspiration of all my songs, you know, unfortunately, not to deal with me. That's why I'm there and moved away and now live in London.

 

What would you have done if you had had no success as Lana Del Rey? Was there a plan B?

Music was my plan as a hobby. I've worked in New York for many years as a social worker. Since I was 18 my Years working in homeless shelters and. Rehabilitation centers for alcoholics and drug addicts Music has long been the luxury then. I'm super in it, people in need their Social Security numbers and ID cards recover. That is my true passion.

 

Hard to believe.

Just ask my parents and my siblings. That will confirm everything. When I came to New York, I met a couple at the beginning to know people who were socially. Yes I came to New York to learn about cool musicians and writers. The poets dreamed of me, in the breathless night banging a sensational novel in the typewriter, I've never found. I have never ever met a writer in New York. The only passionate people I met in New York, were social workers. And since I got stuck, worked during the day and at night alone made music with my guitar.

 

And how you arrived at your record deal?

Since I joined a songwriter-amateur competition. I did not win. But one of the jurors had a small label, and offered me a contract and a producer. Then I got myself to the stage name Lizzy Grant and took seven months in the evening on an album, which was then placed for two years to stockpile in the hope that a large company would take over the board. But nothing came. The songs were very dark, not suitable for a large audience. In addition, the to and fro of the music manager was annoying: people who tell you only that you're awesome find, a week later that you still something missing. I had already resigned themselves to make music. At least just for me. I produced it with friends video clips that I just presented itself online. Just as "Video Games", who then brought me still a record deal.

 

Is it true that you grew up without a TV?

Although there was a TV in the living room of my parents' house, but it was not connected to the cable network, but only served as a monitor for video movies. In the rooms of my father and mother were regularly connected televisions, where as a child I was allowed to watch cartoons. But rarely. My parents felt that urge me on television that impress me too much. They were probably right. When I was a kid saw something interesting on TV, I chattered it for days like a parrot what scared my parents so that they the family television network took from when I was 7. It was only at 14 I was allowed to watch TV regularly. I then sat around the clock before MTV and inhaled everything flickered there.

 

The clip of her song "Video Games" has now been clicked on YouTube nearly 50 million times. Where would you be without the Internet?

No idea, I've wondered about. The Internet is an abstract thing, which I probably still not properly understood. Who are all the people who are there to watch my clips? I know neither they nor their faces that my success can appear quite surreal.

 

Read the comments on YouTube?

Sometimes. One has to be careful, otherwise you by turns. Sometimes I react to something. Add a comment, as usual, under my real name. This then ensures reliable for powerful turmoil in the global network. I just need somewhere to write "shut up", and more than a million people find the great. That gives me the creeps.

 

The Internet is towed particularly nasty about you. You are now inured?

No, and I will also never armored Sun Of course I know that one such vulgarities should never take it personally. But sometimes it takes some time to be aware of this fact again.

 

You still succumb to the temptation to google your name?

Previously, before I knew I did often. Now seldom. About a year ago so no one has even written about me, as the Googling was relaxed. Today, it makes me more afraid. The net is full of very aggressive people. I do not know how in those days, my new album "Paradise" is panned in the net. But in a few weeks then I will probably but the curiosity about coming.

 

Make use of social networks?

As for Twitter and Facebook, I have retired long privately. I use the network only as a promotional tool. When a new record comes, I upload some pictures. No longer. I am personally more interested in other aspects of the Internet, for example, I plan just to set up a small foundation. For such work, the Internet is great. We want to encourage thinkers of up to $ 200,000 - people who are concerned about the sustainability of this planet deserves or improve the usefulness of social networks.

 

Where does your social engagement?

 

My parents raised me in the knowledge that you have to get involved in the community and share with others. Tomorrow I fly to New York and will be there to help out on Thanksgiving with "Meals on Wheels". I need this for my equilibrium, because in the last ten months it often felt on as if this is not my life would be. With the people that made up my life until then, I'm talking about any more.

 

They also distribute food to the needy on Christmas Eve?

No, because my siblings and I will be with my grandparents in Lake Placid. I promised my mother some time ago that we will see Christmas forever. That is also a powerful time in the days between Christmas and New Year draws each balance sheet where they stand in life so and go as it should.

 

Then go to church?

Of course, I am Catholic. I like singing in the church, because I love hymns, carols. "Silent Night" is especially great.

 

Have you believed as a child in Santa Claus?

Oh yes! I was convinced of its existence. My mother always wrote little messages to us, they were apparently from Santa. Just like "Thanks for the cookies. I hope you like my gifts. Greetings, W."

 

Did you feel cheated when you learned the truth?

I was twelve years old and shocked and asked my father to tell me the truth, "Dad, there is a Santa Claus?" He shook his head to enter, and I was stunned - "What?" I then wanted to know what the whole circus with the tales should be good. But today it is also clear to me how important a good show is.

 

It is exhausting to be the main character of Lana Del Rey-show?

That depends where. In France, I care for crowds, in the United States rarely someone recognizes me. I love to sit in coffee shops and read the paper. That's in New York and still no problem. Well, sometimes someone comes along and says, "Excuse me, you look just like Lana Del Rey." And I answer, "Thank you, that's very kind of you." And I am pleased.

 

Lana Del Rey: "Born to Die", was just published the "Paradise Edition" with eight new songs (Universal). Tour from 6 April 2013.

 

INTERVIEW: CHRISTOPH Dallach

 

 

edit: I forgot to say that the translation comes out hilarious


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I haven't read anything in german since high school but Google translate is worse than my rusty German.

I wish she uses Twitter and FB not only as promo tool but also as a way to communicate with her fans.

 

Some stuffs I noticed :

- she often asks the interviewer if they like her music.

- mention her charity work

- brag a little (occasionally)

- mention her family and how important they are

- Whitman & Nobokov - her inspirations

- American not liking her

- European liking her

 

Please interviewers, ask her some new/exclusive questions!!


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Asking the journalist before the interview even starts if he likes her songs comes out a little arrogant. Would she give a different interview or answers if he said "no"?? Is not the first time she asks journalists if they like her music. Does everyone has to like her? Isn't one of the primary purposes of art, music, cinema to inspire a discussion, generate feelings and sensantions? Some like others don't. Better be dislked than get a numb reaction. Numb is an artist tomb


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I never understood why journalists waste their time asking questions whose answers can easily be researched or found in other places. If you get to chat with someone who rarely does interviews, shouldn't you try to bring new things to the table?

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